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Even with the best technology imaginable, you’d probably never be able to exist as a consciously aware brain in a vat.
It is little more than a fancy excuse for escapist fantasizing.
Concerns about privacy and pressures regarding the physical appearance of women and their homes contributed to the failure of AT&T’s 1960s Picturephone.
Chemical changes inside Mars’ core caused it to lose its magnetic field. This, in turn, caused it to lose its oceans. But how?
By improving quantum error correction, quantum computations are now faster than ever. But parallel universes? That’s utter nonsense here.
Time to rewrite our understanding of structural engineering.
Can quantum computers do things that standard, classical computers can’t? No. But if they can calculate faster, that’s quantum supremacy.
And can we run the grid of the future without AI?
Google’s “Genie” could be used to create a wide range of interactive environments for more than just games.
The Bullet Cluster has, for nearly 20 years, been hailed as an empirical “proof” of dark matter. Can their detractors explain it away?
Artificial intelligence is much more than image generation and smart-sounding chatbots; it’s also a Nobel-worthy endeavor rooted in physics!
The transformational change driven by AI will elevate neurodiversity inclusion as an organizational asset, argues Maureen Dunne.
Can two planets stably share the same orbit? Conventional wisdom says no, but a look at Saturn’s moons might tell a different story.
Experimental neuroscientist Patrick McNamara on how we can harness spiritual experiences to explore alternate realities in our minds, and transform our models of the self.
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Cody Delistraty explores if laughter can help alleviate the physical symptoms of grief.
Motility was suggested as a promising “biosignature” as early as the 1960s, but the technology was insufficient — until now.
Changing the narrative on false memories might be surprisingly simple.
Lab experiments showed Caribbean box jellyfish are quick studies of their environment.
AI software is rapidly accelerating chip design, potentially leveling up the speed of innovation across the economy.
Instead of giving the 239 suffering families and the public a true story, Netflix exploited a horrifying tragedy to push conspiracy theories.
In July of 2022, the first science images from JWST were unveiled. Two years later, it’s changed our view of the Universe.
In 2023, data from the James Webb Space Telescope soured hopes that TRAPPIST-1 c had an atmosphere. That disappointment might have been premature.
Uploading your mind is not a pathway to immortality. Instead, it will create a possibly hostile digital doppelgänger.
“The surface is no longer a record of every impact the moon has ever had, because at some point, impacts were erasing previous impacts.”
There are a few clues that the Universe isn’t completely adding up. Even so, the standard model of cosmology holds up stronger than ever.
Perhaps we should be searching for “other Mercurys” rather than “other Earths.”
The Big Bang theory is not threatened, but astrophysicists have some explaining to do.
There are at least 15 different types of solid water (ice). Now, scientists believe that there might be a second type of liquid water.